Technical Debt Contracts in London

Technical Debt
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Technical Debt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Debt over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 377 460
Rank change year-on-year +39 +83 -19
Contract jobs citing Technical Debt 43 54 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.29% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 37 75
10th Percentile £364 £383 £500
25th Percentile £519 £489 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -1.96% -8.93%
75th Percentile £673 £743 £738
90th Percentile £855 £800 £758
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +92.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Technical Debt falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,962 18,344 33,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 89.71% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,995 13,225 24,324
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £798
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 234 277
10th Percentile £17.43 £18.21 £16.53
25th Percentile £25.17 £21.25 £23.25
Median hourly rate £38.75 £39.09 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +4.23% +8.70%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.25 £59.38
90th Percentile £80.23 £77.50 £75.39
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

Technical Debt
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Technical Debt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Debt in London

Technical Debt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Debt in London

Technical Debt
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Debt in London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Debt in London

Technical Debt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Debt in London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Debt in London

Technical Debt
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Debt within the London region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +19 5 £735 +22.50% 2
Technical Debt
England

Technical Debt
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.30%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.65%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 20 (46.51%) AWS
2 11 (25.58%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) GCP
4 4 (9.30%) Nutanix
4 4 (9.30%) Snowflake
5 3 (6.98%) Rubrik
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.65%) IaaS
6 2 (4.65%) Kong
6 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.65%) PaaS
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Kerberos
2 3 (6.98%) DHCP
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.65%) SAN
3 2 (4.65%) VLAN
4 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.95%) MongoDB
3 5 (11.63%) Data Mining
4 3 (6.98%) Dremio
4 3 (6.98%) InfluxDB
4 3 (6.98%) MariaDB
4 3 (6.98%) Sybase ASE
5 2 (4.65%) Big Data
5 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.33%) DB2
6 1 (2.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Git
2 7 (16.28%) Selenium
3 5 (11.63%) Gradle
3 5 (11.63%) JUnit
3 5 (11.63%) Maven
3 5 (11.63%) REST Assured
3 5 (11.63%) Serenity BDD
3 5 (11.63%) TeamCity
4 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.30%) JIRA
5 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 14 (32.56%) Finance
2 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.65%) Law
6 2 (4.65%) Legal
6 2 (4.65%) Retail
7 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.33%) Games
7 1 (2.33%) International Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Police
7 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Architect
2 11 (25.58%) Senior
3 7 (16.28%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (13.95%) Senior Architect
5 5 (11.63%) Lead
5 5 (11.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Test Architect
5 5 (11.63%) Test Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Service Transition Leader
7 3 (6.98%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Site Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Big Data Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) .NET
2 4 (9.30%) LDAP
2 4 (9.30%) React
3 3 (6.98%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.65%) GraphQL
4 2 (4.65%) gRPC
4 2 (4.65%) OpenFin
4 2 (4.65%) Playwright
4 2 (4.65%) Reactive Extensions
4 2 (4.65%) REST
4 2 (4.65%) RxJS
4 2 (4.65%) Spring
4 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.33%) CSS
5 1 (2.33%) HTML
5 1 (2.33%) Node.js
5 1 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Onboarding
2 5 (11.63%) Shadow IT
3 4 (9.30%) Clustering
4 3 (6.98%) Replication
4 3 (6.98%) Tandem
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.65%) PKI
5 2 (4.65%) Private Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.33%) FMCG
6 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
1 6 (13.95%) Windows
1 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Solaris
3 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Agile
2 12 (27.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
4 10 (23.26%) Microservices
4 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (20.93%) Test Automation
6 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
6 8 (18.60%) DevOps
6 8 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (16.28%) Data Modelling
7 7 (16.28%) Migration
7 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
8 6 (13.95%) Budget Management
8 6 (13.95%) Computer Science
8 6 (13.95%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (13.95%) Data Governance
8 6 (13.95%) High Availability
8 6 (13.95%) Machine Learning
8 6 (13.95%) Project Management
8 6 (13.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) Java
2 11 (25.58%) C#
2 11 (25.58%) Python
3 9 (20.93%) Bash
3 9 (20.93%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.63%) C
4 5 (11.63%) C++
4 5 (11.63%) Shell Script
4 5 (11.63%) SQL
5 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.65%) VB
7 1 (2.33%) PHP
7 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) Degree
2 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (11.63%) Master's Degree
4 5 (11.63%) PhD
5 1 (2.33%) CSPO
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) GDPR
2 3 (6.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.65%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (4.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
2 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.98%) Ceph
4 3 (6.98%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.63%) Terraform
3 4 (9.30%) Ansible
4 3 (6.98%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (6.98%) Grafana
4 3 (6.98%) Kibana
4 3 (6.98%) Netcool
4 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.98%) Tivoli
5 2 (4.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) VMware
3 4 (9.30%) Cisco
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) Sybase
4 3 (6.98%) CyberArk
4 3 (6.98%) EMC
4 3 (6.98%) IBM
4 3 (6.98%) Isilon
4 3 (6.98%) MuleSoft
4 3 (6.98%) Qualys
4 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.98%) Serena
4 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.98%) Splunk
5 2 (4.65%) Databricks
5 2 (4.65%) Finsemble
5 2 (4.65%) Siebel
6 1 (2.33%) Google